H. R. Stoneback is Distinguished Professor of English at the State University of New York (New Paltz), and has served as Visiting Professor at the University of Paris, Fulbright Professor at Peking University, and Director of the American Center for Students and Artists in Paris. A widely published literary critic, poet, and leading Hemingway scholar of international reputation, Stoneback is the author or editor of 15 volumes of criticism and poetry and more than 150 essays on American and world literature.

Stoneback's most recent critical study is Reading Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises, the inaugural volume in the Reading Hemingway Series from Kent State University Press (2007). Other recent books include Homage: A Letter to Robert Penn Warren, a book-length poem published for the Warren Centennial in 2005. Poetry includes Singing the Springs and Café Millennium and Other Poems (Portals Press). He has also worked as a singer-songwriter in Nashville and New York and his recent two-CD album, “Stoney & Sparrow: Songs of Place 1962-2006—Live at the Oasis Café” includes fifteen of his songs.

Co-founder and Honorary President of the Elizabeth Madox Roberts Society, Stoneback also has served on the Board of Directors of The Hemingway Society, the Robert Penn Warren Circle, the John Burroughs Association, and other literary organizations.

Forthcoming works include two collections of critical essays, two volumes of poetry, a CD re-release of old recordings and concert performances, and perhaps a novel.

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